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PATENTED'DEG. 4, 1906.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5,1908.

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ROBERT D. JEFFREYS. OF NEWBURGH, NE YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Dec. 4,1906.

Application filed June 5,1906. Serial No. 320,232.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, ROBERT D. JEFFREYs, a citizen of the United States,residing in Newburgh, county of Orange, and State of New York, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Steam-DryingSeparators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to an improvement in that type of devicesfor drying steam as it leaves the boiler wherein a group of parallelwire screens is interposed in the path of the steam to catch theentrained water.

In devices of this character difficulty has been hitherto met in takingthe plates apart for purposes of cleaning and replacing or re pairingthe plates.

The present invention covers improved means for the suspension, support,and security of devices of this character by the use of which theoperation of removing the plates is greatly facilitated.

The invention is illustrated in a preferred form in the accompanyingdrawings, where- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device as fastenedat the top of a boiler. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 isa perspective view of the withdrawing-tool for the compression-head.Fig. 4 is an elevation of the compression-head. Fig. 5 is across-section of the same on the plane a a: in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is alongitudinal section of the suspen sion-bar, and Fig. 7 is an endelevation of the same.

The device is adapted for suspension at the top of a boiler, a portionof which is shown at 1 in Figs. 1 and 2. The main steam-pipe is shown at2, and the terminal steam-chamber 3 of the separator is located directlybeneath the steam-pipe 2, being connected thereto by an adjustableconnecting-pipe 4 in a wellknown manner.

In devices of this type the steam-chamber 3 is sometimes located at oneend of the group of separator-plates and is sometimes placed between twogroups of such plates. Both forms being well known in the art, it is notnecessary to illustrate more than one form; but it is to be understoodthat my invention is applicable to either form.

In the form shown one end of the separator is supported by a strap 5,firmly secured to the boiler by the bolt 6 in a well-known manner, whilethe opposite end of the separator is provided with a novel form ofsuspen sion, hereinafter described and claimed.

In separators of this type the wire screens 7 are placed parallel sideby side between spacing plates or frames 8, the whole being strung upontwo parallel supporting-rods 9 and 10 and being compressed together bynuts 11 on said rods bearing upon the sides of a compression-head 12.

In prior forms of separator of this type it has been necessary to removethe compression-head at one end and to slip the spacingplates andscreens oil of the rods 9 10 in order to get at the screens and platesto clean them or for repairs. In my improved device herein described theinconvenience involved by this proceeding is avoided, it being onlynecessary to move the compression-head a fraction of an inch, so as toloosen the plates and then to pick out and remove whatever plates orscreens it is desired to reach without materially disturbing the others.With this end in view the distance plates or frames are constructed asshown in Fig. 2, with simple shoulders symmetrically placed at theopposite ends of the frames, the shoulder at one side being longer thanthat on the other. In the preferred form shown these shoulders take theform of recesses or notches 18 14, so that a double shoulder is affordedat each end, and each frame can be put in either side up at will. Inarranging the frames I prefer to place the deep recess 14 in successiveplates on opposite sides alternately, so that, as shown in Fig. 2, adeep and a shallow notch succeed each other alternately along the lengthof each rod 9 and 10.

The compression-head consists of a heavy frame 15, having holes 16 atthe ends to receive the rods 9 and 10 and provided with a socket 17,preferably integral with the frame 15, which socket serves the doublepurpose of receiving the suspending device and of affording a point ofengagement for the withdrawing-tool.

The socket 17 is provided with a deep flat chamber 18 and with adepending fork 19, seen from within the separator looking outward inFig. 4. The back of the fork is cut out to form a squared recess 20 toreceive the head of the withdrawing-tool.

The suspension-bar preferably used, as shown at 21 '11 Figs. 1, 6, and7, is provided with a tongue 22, adapted to enter the chamber 18, and adepending fork 23, which stands opposite and parallel to the fork 19, ofthe socket 17.

One end of the bar 21 is fixed by a bolt 24 to the top of the boiler, asshown in Fig. 1, and as the tongue 22 fits into the chamber'18 thehorizontal position of the whole device is preserved.

In normal use the various parts of the separator are firmly clampedtogether by bolts 11 and supported as above described. When it isdesired to get at any of the plates or screensto remove them for anypurpose, the bolts 11 are loosened up, the compressionhead 12 is drawnslightly to the right in Fig. 1, and any one or more of the plates canbe withdrawn without disturbing the others by simply pushing any givenplate, so that the bottom of its deep groove is pushed against thecorresponding rod 9 or 10, drawing down the opposite end which has thusbeen freed from its rod and then pulling the plate or frame in theopposite direction off of the remaining rod. To replace the frame, thisoperation is reversed.

For the purpose of conveniently moving the compressionehead, as abovedescribed, a withdrawing-tool is used, composed, preferably, of aT-shaped bolt 25, having a squared head 26, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.This bolt is simply introduced Within the two forks 19 and 23, so thatthe head 26 occupies the recess 20 in the fork 19, whereupon the nut 27on one end of the bolt is tightened, so as to draw the two ends of theforks 19 and 23 together, and thus cause the head 12 to slide along therods 9 and 10.

Various changes may be made in this device without departing from-myinvention, and I do not limit myself to the details herein shown anddescribed.

What I claim is 1. A steam and Water separator comprising longitudinalsupports on opposite sides and spacing-frames provided withoppositelyplaced shoulders resting on said supports, the shoulder on oneside of each frame being deeper than that on the other, substantially asdescribed.

2. A steam and water separatorcomprising longitudinal supports onopposite sides and sp acing-frames provided with oppositelyplacedshoulders resting on said supports, the shoulder on one side of eachframe being deeper thanthat on the other andsaid frames ing longitudinalside supporting-rods, spacing-plates having deep and shallow notches onopposite sides embracing said rods, compression-heads strung on saidrods and means for compressing said frames between said heads,substantially as described.

4. A steam and water separator comprising parallel spacingframessuspended together, a virtually horizontal suspensionbar and acompression-head for said frames sliding upon and supported by said bar,substantially as described.

5. In a device of the class described, a virtually-horizontalsuspension-bar, a compression-head supported thereby and capable ofsliding thereon and means connected with said bar for drawing thecompression-head along the same, substantially as described.

6. In a device of the class described, a compression-head having asocket, a suspensionbar fitting into said socket and means con nectedwith said bar and socket for drawing the compression-head along thesuspensionbar substantially as described. v

7. In a device of the class described, a compression-head, a sockettherein provided with a fork, a suspension-bar, fitting into said socketand also provided with a fork and a T-shaped bolt adapted to enter bothof said forks for drawing the compression-head along the suspension-bar,substantially as described.

8. As an article of manufacture, a spacing means for steam and waterseparators comprising an open frame turning inward at opposite ends toform a deep and a shallow groove, substantially as described.

9. In a device of the class described, a compression-head having asocket, a suspension bar fitting into said socket and a removable boltadapted to engage said bar and socket for drawing the compression-headalong said suspension-bar, substantially as described.

ROBERT D. JEFFREYS.

Witnesses KATHRYN OHEnvERs, MARGERY ADAMSON.

